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greatwhite 
Is that your competion car?
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I thought you were using a PCI X-meridian sound card?
Nope - it just wasn't going to happen at that time so I pulled it out.
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Did you get rid of it?
Nope - still planning on using it - be it in the house or otherwise.
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If yes, are you using the onboard sound? I don't see any cards on your board.
Onboard optic.
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Is the scroll fan loud? I've been looking for a quiet fan for the computer myself as most of the small fans I've tried spin too fast (and thus, noisy) to move a sufficient amount of air for cooling.
Very loud...that's why it's turned off for critical listening. While driving though, you can't pick it out, which is fine by me.
For me to make the switch over to all tuning done by the PC in the car I would have to make some MAJOR changes. Having the entire sub-dash repainted being one of them. We sanded down the lower portion of the GTi dash (if you have been in a VW of this model you would immediately see why) and had it repainted in a flat black. The painter told us that if we ever needed to have a piece repainted, he would need to do the whole thing again to make sure the matte finish were uniform across all pieces.
Since the Alpine controller sits up there, it would have to come out, I'd have to probably buy a new center console and start a new. In which case I would move the CD drive to be above the screen and I'd see about putting an 8" wide screen vertically or even a 10" wide screen vertically in that spot and moving the AC controls down to where the alpine is currently.
Then there's the down time and the time spent retuning. It's going to happen, but since we were starting to consider buying a house, I couldn't justify the money we would have to spend to make the switch and the time down from shows.
Now we're putting a PC in the truck and I should be able to test the tuning that way to know EXACTLY how I want to do it in the car.